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E. ANTHONY.

PRINTING MAGHINE.

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No. 324,975. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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UNITED STATES ED\VYN ANTHONY, OF JERSEY CITY,

.NEWV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO It. HOE

00., on NEW YORK, N. Y.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,975, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed May 18, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDwYN ANTHONY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing atJersey Oity, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printirig-Machines, of which the f llowing is a specification.

' Myinvcntion consists in an improvement or modification of that contained in Patent No. 212,880, dated March 4, 1879. In the said patexit a web is printed on one side, and then by means of inclined turners it is returned to the ame printi ng-surface, or to one parallel thereugith, and receives an impression on the other $188. The prcsentinvention applies only when the web is broad enough to have two or more ages abreast printed thereon.

The invention consists ir the cmn ir vtion, with printing mechanism, 0. means for longitudinally splitting a web into two or more webs before the second impression is imparted thereto, and for reversing each strip or narrow web separately, and in the combination, with a single turning-bar, of a plurality of turning-bars arranged at appropriate angles thereto, which preferably will be right angles, and guidingrollers, all of which is hereinafter fully explained.

By my invention it is possible to have the pages imprinted on the web in orders which are impossible when it is reversed, as described in the said patent. For instance, most of the arrangements exhibited in table XV of an application for Letters Patent for an improvement in printing-presses (filed by me on or about April 30, 1883) are impossible when the web reversed, as shown in the said patent.

Fignrel represents a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a bottom plan View, of a machine illustrative oi my invention, Figs. 3 and 4 showing plan views of modifications of the reversing apparatus shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, P indicates the form-cylinder; D M, the impression-cylimlers; O O, the slitting mechanism for longitudinally splitting or dividing the web. It consists of two cylinders, the'lowcr having grooves and the upper co-operating circular knives which split the web into three (in this instance) equal 50 strips or webs.

E L denote rollers for conducting the web respectively to and from the reversing apparatus.

F indicates a fixed cylinder or turning-bar inclined to the axis of the form-cylinder, and having acotnmon tangent plane with the roller E.

K 1' K indicate three shorter fixed cylinders or turning-bars arranged parallel to one another. Their axes are also inclined to that of the form-cylinder, and they are fixed at right angles to the turning-bar or cylinder F, as shown in the drawings. All three turningbars or cylinders must have a common tangent plane with the roller L, and the roller G must be fixed so as to have one common tangent plane with the turning-bar or cylinder F, and another with the turning-bars or cylinders K K K, all of which things are manifest from an inspection of the drawings.

A marks the web. After longitudinal splitting, one side of each of the then three webs is denoted by A A A, respcctivel y, and the other side by B B B, respectively. 7

The course of the web is easily traced. It first passes between the longitudinal slitting mechanism 0 C, and then round the impres sion-cylinder 1), thereby getting printed on one side. It next passes roundrollcr E to the turning-bar or cylinder F, thence round the roller G, and from there the three parts of the paths of the web diverge. The strip A passes round the turning-cylinder Kand thence round the roller L, the strip A round the turning-bar K and thence round the roller L, and the strip A round the turning-bar K" and thence round the roller L. I Thus all three strips pass round L, and thence they go round the impressioncylinder M, thereby receiving an impression on their other sides. 0

It is evident that the slitting mechanism 0 C may be placed at any convenient part of the path of the webs prior to its reaching the point where the severed strips diverge. Thus the roller 6- might have suitable longitudinal slit- 5 tcrs working in connection with it.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the three webs or strips A A. A travel difi'erent distances in passing through the reverser. By using three rollers, G G G, as shown in Fig. 4, in place of the single roller G, each strip will travel the same distance, and this distance will be much less than if the web had been reversed in one piece, as in the aforesaid patent. By using three shorter parallel turning-bars or cylinders in place of the one long turning-bar or cylinder Fin other words, by using three entirely independent turners-the distance of travel may be still further reduced; but the length of travel'in Fig. 4 is not in most cases inconveniently great, and when the order of the pages only needs to be considered, then the apparatus in Figs. 1 and 2 is most appropriate.

Fig. 3 illustrates the case of a threebreadth web which has been divided or slit longitudinall y into two portions only. Similarly to the preceding case, the roller G may be replaced by two rollers and the single turning-bar or cylinder F by two turning-bars or cylinders.

In the figures the various webs are always reversed without receiving any lateral trans for; but it is obvious that by suit-ably moving the turning-bars or cylinders K I I( parallel to themselves (and corresponding rollers) the positions of the webs may be interchanged, &c. Thus the web A might be caused to pass over the roller L opposite to the position of A be fore it enters the apparatus, and similarly the web A may pass over roller L opposite to the position of A before entering the apparatus; or all the webs may undergo any desired lateral transfer, &c., and of course the webs may 1. In a web-printing machine, the combinatiou, w th printing mechanism, of mechanism for longitudinally slitting or dividing a web into narrow webs before it has received its second impression, and mechanism for reversing the separate webs so that their paths of travel are not the same while being reversed, all substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a single turningbar or cylinder, of a plurality of turning-bars or cylinders at appropriate angles thereto and parallel to one another, and rollers to guide the webs between said bars or eylindcis, whereby a plurality of webs running side by side are reversed, all substantially as described.

EDWVYN ANTHONY.

\Vitnesses:

ALBERT BELL, 0 ms. RA Wr'rm.

,orrection} m It is hereby certified that Letters Patent N 0. 324,97 5, granted August 25, 1885, upon the application of Edwyn Anthony, of Jersey City, New Jersey, for an improvement in Printing Machines, was erroneously issued to B. Hoe & 00., its successors or assigns that said Letters Patent should have been issued to R. Hoe (h 00., their heirs or assigns that this correction has been made in the records of the case in the Patent Oflice, and that the said Letters Patent should be read to conform thereto.

this 1st day of September, A. D. 1885.

G. A. J ENKS, Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Signed, countersigned and sealed [SEAL.]

Countersigned M. V. MONTGOMERY,

Gammissioner of Patents. 

